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Background in research project coordination, biostatistics, and population health data science. Proficiency with data formatting and handling.

Research interests: environmental toxicants, traumatic stress disorders, community-level deprivation, spatial epidemiology.

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Ivan Castro

Education

Syracuse University

MSPH in Biostatistics

Syracuse, NY

2018

SUNY Oswego

BA in Psychology

Oswego, NY

2013

Experience

Research Coordinator

VISN 2 Center for Integrated Healthcare

Syracuse, NY

2018 - present

  • Manage an NIH R34 (treatment development) grant
  • Coordinate behavioral clinical trial
  • Write data analysis pipelines
  • Write reproducible workflows for processing monthly recruitment data across multiple projects
  • Create ad hoc data wrangling solutions for national program evaluation

Project Manager

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

2015 - 2019

  • Managed NSF-funded training program in trauma research (Grant No. 1559793)
  • Assisted in the design of social science research studies
  • Created cloud-based data collection surveys
  • Responsible for data management

Research Assistant

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

2016 - 2018

  • Graduate RA in the Dept. of Public Health
  • Actively involved in several public health research studies:
  • Syracuse Lead Study
  • Vacationing and Health
  • College Football Injuries
  • Conducted statistical analysis in R and SPSS
  • Conducted spatial analysis in R and ArcGIS
  • Wrote analysis pipelines for modelling environmental exposures to toxicants.
  • Created research databases (MS Access)
  • Conducted semi-structured interviews
  • Wrote research reports

Publications

Variability in the spatial density of vacant properties contributes to background lead (Pb) exposure in children.

Environmental Research, 170, 463-471.

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2019

Castro, I. E., Larsen, D. A., Hruska, B., Parson, P. J., Palmer, C. D., and Gump, B. B.

Presentations

The implications of social support and resilience in a Veteran’s wellbeing.

Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting

New York, NY

2016

Castro, I. E. and Dykas, M. J.